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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 3 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
n.—1st Brigade, 13th Mass. Infantry, Col. S. H. Leonard; 2d Brigade, 12th Mass., Col. J. L. Bates. Second Army Corps (Hancock). First Division.—2d Brigade, 28th Mass., Col. Richard Byrnes. Second Division.—1st Brigade, 15th Mass., Col. G. H. Ward; 3d Brigade, 19th Mass., Col. A. F. Devereux; 20th Mass., Col. P. J. Revere. Third Army Corps (Sickles). Second Division.—1st Brigade, 1st Mass., Lieut.-Col. C. B. Baldwin; 11th Mass., Lieut.-Col. P. D. Tripp; 16th Mass., Lieut.-Col. Wald men showed the greatest coolness and courage. Official War Records, 43, p. 698. In other parts of the line the heaviest losses fell on the 1st, 11th, 15th, 16th, 19th, 20th and 28th. In the afternoon, when two regiments (the 15th Mass., Col. G. H. Ward, and the 82d New York, Col. Huston) were sent forward to fill a gap in the lines, they sheltered themselves behind a hastily constructed breastwork of rails, and sustained a very severe attack of the enemy, both colonels being killed or mor